Dinosaurs.

The United States on Monday gave back to Mongolia the remains of a 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus skeleton stolen from the Gobi desert and sold at auction in New York. The nearly complete skeleton of the Tyrannosaurus bataar, a cousin of the fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex, had been put up for sale and went for $1.05 million last year before US authorities intervened at Mongolia's request. Top New York federal prosecutor Preet Bharara said at a handing-over ceremony near the United Nations that the United States had stopped a "criminal ...

A newly discovered prehistoric species is being named for the 9-year-old girl who found its fossilized bones four years ago, according to the BBC. In 2009, a 5-year-old Daisy Morris discovered some bones on a beach near her home on the Isle of Wight in England. Said Daisy's mother, Sian Morris, "She has a very good eye for tiny little fossils and found these tiny little black bones sticking out of the mud and decided to dig a bit further and scoop them all out." Daisy recognized the bones to be fossils and her family ...

Paleontologists in Canada have discovered fossils of a new 2-ton, 20-foot-long horned dinosaur that roamed the Earth about 80 million years ago. And its headgear would've put on quite a show for the ladies. The dinosaur, a distant cousin of Triceratops called Xenoceratops foremostensis, is one of the oldest specimens known to date of the ceratopsid group. The beast's name, Xenoceratops, translates to "alien horned-face," referring to its strange pattern of horns on its head and above its brow, and the rarity of such horned dinosaurs in this part of the fossil record. NEWS: Flying Dino Too Weak to Lift Off? "It seems to have the general types of ornamentation that we see taken to even ...

A US man accused of smuggling 70-million-year-old dinosaur skeletons into the United States, including a toothy relative of the bigger Tyrannosaurus rex, was arrested on Thursday in Florida, officials said. Eric Prokopi, 38, was charged with conspiracy to smuggle illegal goods, smuggling into the United States, and selling stolen goods, which carry possible sentences of 5, 10 and 20 years in prison respectively. New York chief federal prosecutor Preet Bharara called Prokopi a "one-man black market in prehistoric fossils" and ...